The Unicode standard was just updated to version 6.1, and that means new blocks and characters. New Blocks Blocks added included Miao (script developed for Hmong/Miao languages), Merotic Heiroglyphic & Merotic Cursive (adaptation of Egyptian heirogphys from ancient Meroë in what is now Northern Sudan) and multiple scripts from India (Sora Sompeng, Chakma, Sharada, [...]Read Full Article →

One of the more pleasant surprises in computer technolofy is when a long-standing project under development comes to fruition as a usable product. Such is the case with the STIX Fonts, a set of OTF fonts released under the SIL Open Font License, which is an open source license. The focus of the [...]Read Full Article →

I’m getting help cleaning up my links, and I was sad to discover that the link to the Chrysanthi font (formerly at http://everywitchway.net/linguistics/fonts/chrysuni.html) was no longer working. This was a nice multilingual font which included lots of Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and phonetic characters along with other scripts like Armenian, Runes, math symbols, spiritual symbols and [...]Read Full Article →

AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages) has just posted a set of links to “Medieval Slavic Fonts” for Old Church Slavonic, Glagolitic and Blackletter. See http://www.aatseel.org/medieval_slavic_font for more information List includes Unicode fonts and older non-Unicode fontsRead Full Article →

I had a hard time deciding which sessions to attend at the last Unicode conference, but I did end up at “Unicode at the Front Lines”, which was a series of mini-presentations from scholars working with lesser-known languages and scripts. This is a place where the Unicode rubber really hits the road, and I [...]Read Full Article →